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Text: | Strengthen for Service, Lord |
Translator (from Syriac): | Charles W. Humphreys |
Translator (from Syriac): | Percy Dearmer |
Tune: | ACH GOTT UND HERR |
Adapter & Harmonizer: | Johann S. Bach |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands
That holy things have taken;
Let ears that now have heard thy songs
To clamor never waken.
2. Lord, may the tongues which Holy sang
Keep free from all deceiving;
The eyes which saw Thy love be bright
Thy blessèd hope perceiving.
3. The feet that tread Thy holy courts
From light do Thou not banish;
The bodies by Thy body fed
With Thy new life replenish.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands |
Title: | Strengthen for Service, Lord |
Translator (from Syriac): | Charles W. Humphreys |
Translator (from Syriac): | Percy Dearmer |
Meter: | 87.87 |
Language: | English |
Source: | Translation in The English Hymnal (London: Oxford University Press, 1906), number 329 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | The words were inspired by a prayer said by a deacon during the Lord's Supper in the Liturgy of Malabar, a 5th Century Nestorian rite of the Mar Thomas Christians on the southern coast of India. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ACH GOTT UND HERR |
Adapter & Harmonizer: | Johann S. Bach |
Meter: | 87.87 |
Incipit: | 17655 67121 76716 |
Key: | A Major |
Source: | As Hymnodus Sacer, edited by Christianus Galler (Leipzig, Germany: 1625) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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